Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machinations within the union ultimately resulted in HUERA withdrawing an unfair-labor-practice complaint against Harvard that it had filed with the NLRB. Charles Crockett, then HUERA president, was accused last fall by fellow union officials of siding with the University in the unfair-labor-practice dispute. Crockett denied that his actions undermined the union and said that Vice President Darleen Bonislawski, a long-time nemesis of Harvard labor officials, had asked...
Church officials had hoped that a little holy competition would force Denver's 18 private funeral homes to lower costs. Instead, threatened local undertakers seem bent on raising an unholy row. They have complained to the Colorado attorney general, charging the tax-free church with unfair business practices. The archdiocese, in a conciliatory move, has offered to pay taxes on any income from the mortuary. Says Martin Work, the archdiocese's director of administration: "There's plenty of business...
...federal dollars. Boasts Governor Allen Olson: "We want to prove we can live without them." But in the Northeast and industrial Midwest, the new federalism is "cruel and unusual punishment," according to Roger Vaughan, economic aide to New York Governor Hugh Carey. These regions, says Vaughan, will bear an unfair burden of social service cutbacks because they spend more for the disadvantaged in the first place. Urban areas, which tend to have the highest concentration of poor and others dependent on federal programs, will probably be the biggest losers. A small delegation of mayors was invited to last week...
...last a courageous Congressman, Paul McCloskey, has openly drawn attention to the overbearing pro-Israel lobby in this country ["Questioning the Israeli Lobby," July 27]. The merest protest always draws unfair cries of antiSemitism. Let us restructure our priorities so that we put the interests of America ahead of the concerns of this or that pressure group...
Congressman McCloskey is unfair in his assertions about the influence of the Israeli lobby. Is the Israeli lobby any more powerful than the N.R.A. on gun control or the A.M.A. on national health insurance? It is disconcerting that McCloskey questions the influence of Jewish citizens rather than the validity of their cause...